Lene Hansen

Professor

Department of Political Science
Øster Farimagsgade 5
1353 København K

Office: CSS 18, 2. sal, 18.2.25
Phone: +45 353-23432
Phone (Reception desk): +45 353-23366
E-mail: lha@ifs.ku.dk

Primary research areas

• International Relations Theory, particulary constructivism, femimism, and poststructuralism
• Identity and foreign policy
• The Internet and global politics, including homepages and visual identity
• Denmark and debates over the EU
• The Evolution of International Security Studies and the concept of security

Current research

• Visual securitization
• Gender and international security
• The evolution of International Security Studies
• Poststructuralism and International Relations Theory
• The Practice Turn in International Relations Theory

Recent publications include Barry Buzan and Lene Hansen, The Evolution of International Security Studies (Cambridge University Press, 2009) and Lene Hansen and Helen Nissenbaum, 'Digital Disaster, Cyber Security, and the Copenhagen School', International Studies Quarterly, vol. 53, no. 4, 2009.

Teaching

The Director of The Copenhagen Graduate School of Social Sciences and the Ph.D. prgram in Political Science.